Why I think the direction riot is taking league is not the right direction
Recently I heard that the "view stats" tab was not broken, they just decided to make it so you can't view your stats. I don't know whether or not this is actually true, but I make this post under the assumption that this is true.
League has been getting more and more casual in season 6. Much more than ever before. First we give people free wins for doing bad, then we make dynamic queue to make the competitive environment feel less competitive, and now we make so players can't even view their stats with outside help. All this is done with the intention of making ranked a more casual place to get people to play it more often. They are essentially appealing to the people that want to play ranked, but can't handle the pressure of ranked. Appealing to casuals is a good thing and is why league is so much more popular than dota 2. However, the thing I was enjoyed about league was how it catered to BOTH very well. It had the casual feel and the competitive experience which is what kept everyone coming back. With all of these changes, I can't help but feel they are catering specifically to the casual side much more than the competitive side. Dynamic queue is fine, but we should have solo queue as well. Hiding our stats is simply ludicrous. It doesn't positively effect anyone other than the guy whose like "hurdur im gonna go play ranked", not to anyone who is playing ranked to actually compete and improve, because anyone that actually plays the game competitively will want to see their stats. Riot said themselves that ranked is where people go to test themselves, the guy with a casual mentality should be playing norms.... not ranked.
I know you could just go to a 3rd party site and see your stats but it's the principle behind why what I am upset about. It's along the same principle as to why they don't have ratios in the client as well. I remeber seeing a rioter response along the lines of "we provide the amount of information you need to have fun and understand the champion, for more advanced information you can go elsewhere." (not exact quote but it's the idea.) It's pretty sad when I have to go into a custom game and calculate aurelian sols ratios because I couldn't find them anywhere else... It's a slippery slope they are sliding down and it makes me wonder what information they will cloud up next because we can't be bothered trying to understand it. Will they take out numerical values on their items in game next? Will I have to buy a bf sword and see how much my ad goes up just to know how much ad a bf sword gives? Will I then have to post it to a website so that other people know how much ad a bf sword gives? This sounds ludicrous right? Almost as ludicrous as playing ranked but not being able to tell how well your doing right? They have done exactly this with many other things, it follows the same logic and to me they are already teetering a line that is starting to fall on the other side of casual. Which is sad to me because to me league had a great balance of casual and competitive before these changes. I have no idea why they are making these changes. Actually I do, the reasoning just makes me sad. [zombie-brand-facepalm]
